He got the high sign so he a bus Along the roads that wind on The hot Mojave and the He'd start his whole anew And what he left behind he hadn't Half as much as things He knew Right sundown... He got dropped off on a in town Where a grey old man looked him up and down and "Son, this ain't no western movie You're a long way off yippie-yi-yay I can tell at a glance you're not from 'round these parts You've got a green about'chathat's a gringo for starts the only thing a western savage understands Are whiskey and and an unarmed man you" "So you keep on the move! Don't let that fancy paint job you!" the old timer pulled him close and said You've got a way, I know You've got a longer ahead Through the of the buffalo Through the claims of the dead, and Just the spokes of a wheel spin 'round with the rest You'll hear the drums and the of steel hear the call of the west, call of the west You'll the call of the west, call of the west Harshly awakened by the sound of six of light-caliber rifle fire Followed minutes later by the booming of nine from a heavier rifle But you can't close off the He the snick of a rifle bolt And himself peering down the muzzle Of a weapon held by a drunken liquor store "There's a conflict," he said, "there's a land and people The have to go They've come all the way out here to make mining To do automobile work To pictures To not to do laundry To own a their own CB radios and air conditioning Good for sure And to sell Time/Life books and to in a deli To have a little every morning And maybe... maybe to own their own gas again And drugs Have crazy sex But above all, all, to have a fair shake To get a piece of the rock and a of the pie And spit out of the window of your car and not have the wind blow it back in face" Now, from the timberline to the deserts dry risk dangling on some hangman's tree To stake their claims on prarie plains While they say lunch is not had for free? Just like the spokes of a Who'll spin with the rest hear the drums and the brush of steel And I'll hear the call of the west, of the west (Yippie-yi-yo, yippie-yi-yo-ki-yay, yippie-yi-yo-ohh-ohh) hear the call of the west, call of the west (Yippie-yi-yo, yippie-yi-yo-ki-yay, yippie-yi-yo-ohh-ohh) I'll the call of the west, call of the west (Yippie-yi-yo, yippie-yi-yo-ki-yay, yippie-yi-yo-ohh-ohh) I'll hear the call of the west, call of the (Yippie-yi-yo, yippie-yi-yo-ki-yay, yippie-yi-yo-ohh-ohh) I to be somebody! I used to be somebody, do you me? Do you hear me? been there! I used to be somebody, god you! been there before! Don't away! Well, youyou unleaded? Unleadedthat's next pump over, so on movin', okay? No, out of order.